TORONTO — Janice Willier was perusing the web site of the Edmonton Opera in the future this 12 months when she noticed plans for a manufacturing based mostly on Indigenous author Thomas King’s 2020 novel “Indians on Trip.”
King has lengthy used humor to choose aside stereotypes and illuminate the mistreatment of Indigenous individuals in North America. His 2014 nonfiction ebook “The Inconvenient Indian” has change into a cornerstone of Indigenous literature and historical past course syllabi. The judges of considered one of a number of literary prizes it received right here praised the work as “subversive, entertaining, well-researched, hilarious, enraging, and … hopeful.” A documentary adaptation premiered on the 2020 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, the place it was named Finest Canadian Characteristic Movie — the primary of a number of honors it might win.
